History & local legend
The former Clearfield Area Middle School on Mill Road has a custodial ghost story about a music teacher still playing in its auditorium. Night workers reportedly heard piano music, followed it toward the room and smelled the vanilla tobacco the teacher had favored. Some accounts describe seeing him at the keys with his pipe.
A pupil offered a separate recollection in July 2013. During a basketball game involving a friend's brother, the two friends left the gym and practiced gymnastics in a hallway. Looking toward the auditorium, they saw a green ball of light.
Sources
- JackMc, Ghosts of Central Pennsylvania, October 20, 2010, and a student’s July 19, 2013 eyewitness comment about the auditorium hallway
- StrangeUSA, Clearfield Middle School custodians’ musical tradition preserved with the school name
- Clearfield alumni, history and floor plan of the Mill Road high school that became the middle school
- Pennsylvania Auditor General, 2016 Clearfield Area School District performance audit confirming the middle school closure
- USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program, June 2, 2010 tile covering the school, with the building still standing
